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On of the strangest experiences I had was have an Engish person copy edit my book. The quality was great but the Englishisms did not work for a book set in Vancouver Canada with all the character Canadian. Lots of changing pavement to sidewalk.
I have no problem with localism in book about that location. Like we've had the word hoochy for 50 years but here it is a plastic squid used to lure salmon.
And its really common to mix metric and imperial here. Like a person heigth feet and inchs. Depth of water on the chart meters, on the fish finder feet. Speed KPH unless your going really fast than its MPH. Liquor bottles Oz. Beer cans ml.
Have fun, Jan
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